Bears’ ugly loss not Fox’s best moment

CHICAGO — The blame for Sunday’s inexcusable loss to the Green Bay Packers starts at the top with head coach John Fox.

The Chicago Bears (3-6) had an extra week to prepare for the Packers, who on the contrary, had to play last Monday night against Detroit.

Let’s face it: Green Bay’s season looked sunk. They arrived at Soldier Field with a three-game losing streak and ineffective quarterback Brett Hundley – not perennial Bears killer and future Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers – at the controls of the offense.

On the other hand, the Bears had won two of their last three games largely because of Vic Fangio’s stingy and opportunistic defense.

Officials ruled Benny Cunningham lost control of the ball before it made contact with the pylon, which resulted in a touchback. Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images

Chicago was excited again about the Bears.

All the ingredients were in place for the Bears to pull off the elusive victory over their hated NFC North rivals.

Or so it seemed.

Instead, the Bears came out sloppy, disorganized and undisciplined – they had six flags thrown on them in the first quarter alone — and dropped an ugly 23-16 decision.

That’s a direct reflection on the head coach.

It sure seemed like Fox didn’t have the team ready to play.

To add insult to injury, Fox’s botched challenge on the Benny Cunningham play backfired so badly that officials changed the call to a touchback and gave Green Bay the ball at the 20. Fox inadvertently took points off the board.

That reversal sums up Fox’s tenure in Chicago.

Almost nothing has gone according to plan.

The Bears have lost 29 of 41 games since Fox came to town – the worst record of any NFL head coach dating back to 2015.